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Profiles in Mojave Desert History -
Explorers and Surveyors
Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives
Joseph Christmas Ives (1828–1868), soldier, botanist, explorer of the Colorado River in 1858.
Source: NPS Grand Canyon More information: Pertinent chapters (chapters 3 - 7) of Ives' official report, "Report upon the Colorado river of West. Also see: Beale Expedition When, under orders from the Secretary of War, Lt. Joseph C. Ives, earlier with the Whipple Expedition, arrived at the mouth of the Colorado River with the ... Chemehuevi, Mohave & Cahuilla Indians Whipple and Ives, for the sake of some new and curious acquaintance-for which we shall be indebted to those intelligent and experienced path-finders-with ... Indians of the Mojave Desert Tribes of the 35th Parallel. Let us accompany Messrs. Whipple and Ives, for the sake of some new and curious acquaintance-for which we shall be . ... Whipple Expedition The Whipple Expedition, a large scientific expedition led by Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple, Brevet Lt. J. C. Ives, and 2nd Lt. D. S. Stanley, which was the next ... Military & Pioneer Period - Mohave Indians The Whipple Expedition, a large scientific expedition led by Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple, Brevet Lt. J. C. Ives, and 2nd Lt. D. S. Stanley, which was the next ... Amiel Whipple In 1858 Lieutenant Ives named a mountain range along the west bank of the Colorado River for Amiel W. Whipple. These mountains lie east to west in what is ... Lake Mead In 1855, Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives traveled the lower Colorado River in search of ... Following Ives, John Wesley Powell continued exploration of the upper ... History of Hoover Dam River explorers and mappers first came in January, 1858, under the leadership of Lt. Joseph Christmas Ives, who came up the Colorado by steamboat from the ... Hoover Dam Chronology Lt. J. C. Ives navigates the Colorado River and, with his steamboat The Explorer , reaches the end of Black Canyon. 1869. Major John Wesley Powell makes the ... |
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